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Friday, April 25, 2014

“The Thrones of David’s Dynasty,” Psalm 122:5

In Hebrew Poetry today we looked at a nice archaeological illustration from the Tel Dan excavations of Psalm 122:5, “Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.” (Click images to enlarge.)

Duties of a son, from The Story of Aqhat: To erect a stele for his ancestral gods; to build a family shrine in the sanctuary;
to guard his footsteps from earth to underworld; to take his hand when he is drunk; to put his arm over one's shoulder when he is full of
wine; to eat a funeral meal in the temple of Ba'al; to offer a sacrifice in the house of El.